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On Energy Star v2.0

Starting on January 2, 2017 Energy Star v2.0 will replace the current v1.1 standard as the qualifying directive for all light bulbs and lamps sold in the United States. No products which are currently qualified to bear the Energy Star logo under the current standard will be allowed to retain the qualification after January 1, …

Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) are solid-state lighting devices that are very different from conventional LEDs both in terms of physical appearance and in terms of performance characteristics. OLEDs are larger in surface area but much thinner than LEDs. OLEDs are lower in luminance and produce light which is more diffuse in appearance. The physical nature …

LED lighting has a number of strong economic and environmental advantages, but if there could be said to be a weakness of LED lighting, that weakness would be dimmability. When LED lamps first entered the market, they were pretty much undimmable. They performed very poorly and unreliably when used with existing in-wall dimmer controls. Even …

Ultraviolet water treatment is a technology that is gaining rapid acceptance in America. Even though this water purification technology has been around since the 1930’s, and is already widely deployed throughout Canada and Europe, few large-scale municipal water treatment systems in the United States currently make use of UV disinfection. Most of the UV water …

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